Full Description
This book discusses feature films that enrich our understanding of doctor-patient dilemmas. The book comprises general clinical ethics themes and principles and is written in accessible language. Each theme is discussed and illuminated in chapters devoted to a particular film. Chapters start with a discussion of the film itself, which shares details behind the making of the film; box-office and critical reception; casting; and other facts about production. The chapter then situates the film in a history of medicine and medical sociology context before it delves into the clinical ethics issues in the film, and how to use it as a teaching aid for clinical ethics. Readers will understand how each film in this collection served to bring particular clinical ethics issues to the public's attention or reflected medico-legal issues that were part of the public discourse. The book is a perfect instructor's guide for anyone teaching bioethics, healthcare ethics, medical sociology, medical history, healthcare systems, narrative medicine, or nursing ethics.
Contents
Part 1: END OF LIFE ON FILM.- Chapter 1: If I Was Restricted to One Film: Wit (2001).- Chapter 2: It's Really About Cruzan and Quinlan: Whose Life is It, Anyway? (1981) .- Chapter 3: Closure and Family Systems: My Life (1993).- Chapter 4: "Bye, Bye, Life": All That Jazz (1979).- Part 2: FILMS ABOUT COMPETENCY AND DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY.- Chapter 5: One Eye and an Alphabet: Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) .- Chapter 6: The Successful Delusional: K-PAX (2001).- Chapter 7: Malingering and Nursing Ethics: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).- Chapter 8: Dementia and Capacity: Still Alice (2014).- Part 3: FILMS ABOUT BENEFICENCE .- Chapter 9: "Am I Good Man, or a Bad Man?" The Elephant Man (1980) .- Chapter 10: Pediatric Ethics and the Limits of Parental Authority: Lorenzo's Oil (1992).- Chapter 11: Weighing Clinical Goods over Clinical Harms: Awakenings (1990).- Chapter 12: "She Threw Up in her Mask": The Verdict (1982).- Chapter 13: "How Many Dead Hemophiliacs Do You Need?" And The Band Played On (1993).- Chapter 14: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Miss Evers' Boys (1997).- Chapter 15: Physician-Assisted Suicide: You Don't Know Jack (2010). .- Part 5: ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION.- Chapter 16: The U.S. Healthcare System: Sicko (2007).- Chapter 17: We Heal No One; We Do Nothing: The Hospital (1971).- Chapter 18: Some Good Parts: The Transplant Films.- PART 6: PROFESSIONALISM AND HUMANISM.- Chapter 19: A Classic for a Reason: The Doctor (1991) .- Chapter 20: A Home Healthcare Gem: Passion Fish (1992).- Chapter 21: A Tale of Two Colleagues and Pediatric Surgery: Something the Lord Made (2004).
